The GOP doesn’t work like that. Nobody is coming in in a vacuum. The establishment candidate was Romney. (that may change after ObamaCare)
The conservative candidates will be Palin and Huckabee. Romney would have been the benefit of conservatives dividing the vote as usual...Obamacare changes all of that.
If the establishment chooses Romney they are just born losers and inept since he has no credibility in attacking Obama on HealthCare now, the primary issue.
Also rans: Pawlenty and a few others
1 %rs Paul, a few House guys and maybe a Senator.
So you are at the top of the GOP, right?
We needen’t bother with primaries, right?